Brevik, Norway
Port · NOBVK · 59.06°, 9.69° · Prepared Foodstuffs & Beverages, Animal & Animal Products, Vegetable Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 2
- vessel calls / yr
- 512
About the port
The World Port Index lists Brevik as a small coastal natural harbour with good shelter.
Listed depths: 11 m in the channel, 17 m at the anchorage, 9 m at the cargo pier and 11 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 1 m.
Entry can be restricted by swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is compulsory.
Repair facilities are rated moderate.
Brevik is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 528 port calls at Brevik from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 44 a month, 5% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, container ships 44%, dry bulk carriers 26% and ro-ro vessels 13% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 592 thousand t imported and 1.2 million t exported.
The busiest month was Jun 2026 (51 calls) and the quietest Apr 2026 (34).
What is reported near this port
2 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Brevik, the earliest issued in 2012; the most common types are exercises (1) and nav aids (1).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Brevik is not necessarily about the port; collection is incomplete between 2024-05 and 2026-08-17.
Port calls per month · IMF PortWatch estimates
Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 (last bar: month in progress) · last complete month Aug 2026: 40 calls, 75 thousand t in, 104 thousand t out
Warnings within 60 nm, by year of issue
In force within 60 nm · 0
Nothing in force within 60 nm right now.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- small coastal natural
- shelter
- good
- water body
- Skagerrak; North Atlantic Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA I
- depths
- channel 11 m · anchorage 17 m · cargo pier 9 m · oil terminal 11 m
- mean rise of tide
- 1 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell; not ice, tide
- overhead limits
- yes
- turning area
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable, compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- anchorage, wharves
- cranes
- not fixed, floating, mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, longshore labour, medical
- supplies
- engine stores, fuel oil, water
- repairs
- moderate
- marine railway
- small
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 193 (Enroute) - Skagerrak and Kattegat
- chart
- 43360
World Port Index entry Brevik (No. 23660), matched by UN/LOCODE. NGA Publication 150 (U.S. government work). The index describes the port as last surveyed for the publication; it is not a substitute for Sailing Directions or port authority information.
Share of Norway's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 2.3%, exports 1.0%.
Chokepoint and port data: IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org) — IMF and the University of Oxford, via the UN Global Platform. Not for navigation — follow official NAVAREA / coastal broadcasts and port authority notices.